Graduation rushed past you before you even considered the ramifications of it all. Any summer road trips were out of the question. You wanted to stay in Chicago, but apartment rents were outrageous for a single. To cut costs, you presented the idea to Sam to move in together. It just wasn't practical to pay two rents when you would be spending all of your time together.
Agreed.
Within a week you had rent, a landline, cable and utility bills. |
48 percent of American households are unmarried. That is a large percentage, and it's on the rise. More couples are cohabitating either before they decide to get married for practical purposes, or they forgo the marriage altogether. Cohabitation just doesn't have the scandalous reputation as it once did in the past. The cultural, social and economic urgency of marriage isn't there today.
And what's a paper agreement anyway? Why should that validate your feelings for one another when emotion cannot be quantified?
Well, you'll just see in another 6.8 years down the road …hmmmm.
Some would say this trend in cohabitation is the reluctance to proclaim adulthood: “As a result, in the life of a post-collegiate single American, there is no clear fault line between childhood and adulthood; we edge, rather than leap, toward it. A wedding, with its implication of permanence, sometimes looks like the endpoint of the journey toward personal development ( The Boston Phoenix ).” |
